Currently the GAZ is in test mode. BTW, how do I actually craft my own newsletter instead of using this default format which shows only the Latest News (thread?) and other threads? Im quite baffled as to how this thing actually works

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I've got 2 questions:
1. How do I prevent it from being sent out? Seems like even in test mode it sends out?
2. How do I use the info block? For example if I were to say something like, "Welcome to the August edition of abcforums" then in the month of september how do I make the title change?

Next generation dateThe date that the newsletter automatically produce the next issue

1. I've tried to set it as August 6, but the date keeps going back to August 5. Can you please help?
2. When I access the newsletter, it only shows minimal buttons (I think VB's default) but it doesnt show other buttons on my navbar, how to enable them

1: Go to the ACP -> GAZ -> Newsletters -> click a newsletter link and set 'Issue active after generation?' to no.

2: Whatever text/HTML you are using for the message is what appears. There is no 'use the variable for date' option, but if you want the date in the message, you'd need to edit the GAZ info.php file.

3: This is a consequence of a mixing mktime and vbdate so the date is minus a day. I'll need to look into a better way to process the date. I fixed one of these before, but this one is more complex, so it is likely going to take some time, but for now, use a day ahead, i.e., August 7 for August 6.

4: The newsletter.php page uses the vB navbar template. The newsletter issues that are sent use the gaz_html_header, gaz_html_navbar, and gaz_html_footer templates (assuming it's an HTML email being sent) and you need to edit those templates as you prefer for reasons mentioned here.

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Im new to GAZ, now still figuring out how it is supposed to work, can someone help?

I'm finding that it isn't very intuitive thats for sure! Seen another large VB site recommended this so I immediately purchased; hopefully I can figure this thing out sooner rather than later or I'm not going to be happy spending $65 on it!

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